RENE MAGRITTE ~

 

MAGRITTE

a biography by Alex Danchev

Pantheon 2021

GOGOL BORDELLO ~

 

WARMEST TENT ON EARTH ~

 

CHASING HOMER ~

R E A D      M E 

New Directions, 2021

 

NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS ~

 

WE ARE NOT ALONE

ON THE MESA ~

 

It's a shame, the re-issue of this anthology is almost batting .1000 —

it has a lush cover photograph of the poet Bobbie Louise Hawkins

by Gerard Malanga, who not only captures the time element of the late 1960s, 

but Malanga has always had an affectionate eye for cats.

This anthology was first published by City Lights in 1971

and this expanded edition draws in an aura of American poetry

including Black Mountain poets, San Francisco Renaissance, Beat, 

and the NewYork School of poets, and for a change digs into

the ground and finds at least one half of Coyote's Journal poetry (Bill Brown) 

but badly misses James Koller — a close friend with many in this

anthology and a sure hand of the California poem. 

As they say in that funny world: it's the only reason why I

can't give this book 5 Stars.

A thorough biographical index of each poet would have

also been a treat and finished off a sterling package.

Nonetheless, the new anthology is beautifully edited —

you can sense certain poets touching certain poets —

for instance Joanne Kyger touching Tom Clark

touching Jim Carroll touching Bill Berkson.

The Song Cave makes terrific books, each title comes off the block

similar but unique, much as New Directions used to make them and

how we used to go hunting for them. Black spine, same square size, 

cool and fashionable, neat typeface, and an exciting range

of poets. You absolutely can't go wrong.

Just not perfect, yet.

[ BA ]

STEVE REICH ~

 

Quite an interesting book and format of "interviews" —

really sharp and informative conversations

and you can see the names here listed,

a great crew.

Reich is generous with his time and knowledge

 and quite kind and appealing between the lines.

Don't hesitate.

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Hanover Square Books

2022

LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS ~

 

FOR BOB ~ MUSIC FEST!

happy birthday!  

love, sweetheart! 

August 5, 2022

WENDELL BERRY ~

 

Stay Home

I will wait here in the fields

to see how well the rain

brings on the grass. 

In the labor of the fields

longer than a man's life

I am home. Don't come with me.

You stay home too.

I will be standing in the woods

where the old trees

move only with the wind

and then with gravity.

In the stillness of the trees

I am at home. Don't come with me.

You stay home too.

_______________

Wendell Berry

New Collected Poems

Counterpoint Press, 1980

GRZEGORZ WROBLEWSKI ~

 

Isn't  It Strange

Acid rain . . . On the wall

a picture of your long-deceased

cat.

Isn't it strange that every day

I pray to her

to return you to me.

Twin

He resembled me.

I held him up to my lips,

then threw him into the salty

water. He sank to the bottom.

I heard a giggle.

An invitation to play

together.

You and Me

It couldn't have worked out better.

I am with you without you.

I draw figures on the sand.

I breathe.

I wait.

I decay.

Boeing 737

We watched as it disappeared inside a gray cloud.

(We all would like to do something similar.)

Osaka

an eye.

Keep it,

just in

case.

______________________

Grzegorz Wroblewski

Zero Visibility

Phoneme Media, 2017

translated from the Polish by Piotr Gwiazda

STACKED DECK ~

 

also ~

C O R A L      D A V E N P O R T

JIMMY NOLEN ~

 

Jimmy Nolen

THE APHORISMS OF FRANZ KAFKA ~

 

R E A D     M E

BILL RUSSELL ~

 

Bill Russell with his coach, Red Auerbach, in December 1964 after scoring his 10,000th career point in a game in Boston Garden. In a 1980 poll of basketball writers, he was voted the greatest player in N.B.A. history.Credit...Associated Press

B I L L      R U S S E L L

1934 ~ 2022

COUNT BASIE & OSCAR PETERSON ~

 

ART PEPPER `

 

"The first five-four tune ever written. I wrote it in

1950, way, way before "Take Five" came on the scene.

Unfortunately I went to the federal penitentiary right after that and

Paul Desmond and what's-his name went on ahead playing in the clubs

and all that, became big names, and I just sunk to the depths of zero."

A R T   P E P P E R

FOR SUSAN ~

 

July 29, 2022

happy birthday!

JAY WRIGHT ~

 

from Thirteen Quintets for Lois

Death arrives as the body's memory,

becomes expression and promissory

note in a generative relation.

Leibniz might point to an aberration,

or scout an asymmetric assumption

for a flowing body, transitory,

an occasion for light's authority.

In Mali, the owner of water finds

a stolen seed and the logic that binds

the mask to its event, depth of matter,

true signature and motive, the flatter

change in direction, all set to shatter

the indivisible and instant lines.

Logic brings no temper to these designs.

______________________

Jay Wright

Thirteen Quintets for Lois

Flood Editions 2021

KENT JOHNSON — AFTER HORACE

 

Three color booklet of new poems

by Kent Johnson

 in fold-out splendor

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 $12

with free shipping

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R E A D     M E

Atria Books, 2021

MURDER IN THE AMAZON ~

 

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A M A Z O N      J O U R N E Y

REVEREND GARY DAVIS ~

 

Live in Seattle, WA 1967

MALCOLM NANCE ~

JULES SUPERVIELLE ~

 

Homesick for the Earth

One day we'll say 'The sun ruled then.

Don't you remember how it shone on the twigs,

on the old, as well as the wide-eyed young?

It knew how to make all things vivid

the second it alighted on them.

It could run just like the racehorse.

How can we forget the time we had on earth?

If we dropped a plate it clattered.

We'd look around like connoisseurs,

alert to the slightest nuance of the air,

knew if a friend was coming towards us.

We'd pick daffodils, collect pebbles, shells —

when we couldn't catch the smoke.

Now smoke is all we hold in our hands.'

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Jules Supervielle (1884-1960)

translated by Moniza Alvi

THE LATEST WORLD OF JOE NAPORA ~

 

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LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY ~

 

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GARY SNYDER COLLECTED POEMS ~

 

I finished the Snyder COLLECTED POEMS (Library of America, 2022) yesterday (then started Nelly Sachs, the new translations are refreshing, as they have been for Celan and Rimbaud). No doubt Snyder is the central river after Pound — it’s both in his poems, translations and far better than Pound, his psyche. I read every page. Some more than once. I maneuvered the many excellent notes and chronology by constantly referring to them, like a fine relief map. Ran my fingers over.

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                                                   T H I S   E V E N I N G

KEITH JARRETT ~

 

CLAES OLDENBURG ~

 

C L A E S     O L D E N B U R G

Stockholm 1929 ~ Manhattan 2022

M O R E !

YOU DON'T KNOW US NEGROES ~

 

R E A D     M E